Case
Case noun - Something that encloses another thing especially to protect it.
Smoking gun and case are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Smoking gun" instead a noun "Case".
Smoking gun
Smoking gun noun - Indisputable evidence (especially of a crime).
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Synonyms for Smoking gun
Case and smoking gun are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Case" instead a noun phrase "Smoking gun".
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- Rarity admits later that she didn't have much of a case until she revealed the Smoking Gun, which was a stain linking him to a Delicious Distraction.
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Smoking Gun: Near the end of case 5-4, Detective Fulbright finds a decisive evidence at the crime scene which turns out to be the killer's lighter that gets defendant acquitted for murder because the lighter doesn't contain any of the defendant's fingerprints.
- Smoking Gun: Case 5's introduction of Misa's Death Note shows exactly how and by whom the murders were committed and that such a scenario was possible in the first place.
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